Body Work Collection

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Bodywork and upholstery garage. French School (18th c.). Etching

Metallurgique Motors advertisement, 1911
Advertisement for Metallurgique Ltd of Manchester encouraging visitors to come to their stand at the Olympia Motor Show in 1911 where their cars bodywork would be attracting attention. Date: 1911

Car Manufacturing - Complex hydraulic press
A complex hydraulic press is used to shape a piece of metal against a mould, possibly for a car. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Large open-top roadster car
A moustachioed driver in his large open-top roofed roadster with highly polished metallic bodywork and large rear seating section

Renault Car 1925
An elegant couple and their smart new Renault car

Leyland Firemaster
Wolverhamtons first British Leyland Firemaster TFM 2, a diesel-engined front-mounted pump fire engine, this one with bodywork designed by David Haydon Ltd. of Birmingham

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